- PHILIPPINES: Terrorist group Daesh has claimed responsibility for a Sunday church bombing, which left 20 people dead and 100 wounded, on the southern island of Jolo. In response, a spokesman for President Rodrigo Duterte vowed to “crush these godless criminals.”
- VENEZUELA: The United States recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela this week, urging other countries to “pick a side,” and cut off Nicolas Maduro’s government. Several western countries have done just that, while Russia, China, and others continue to support Maduro.
- CANADA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired his ambassador to China, John McCallum, on Saturday, amid the ongoing diplomatic crisis between the two countries. On Tuesday, McCallum told a gathering of Chinese language journalists in Toronto that Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou had a good case to fight extradition to the US.
- FRANCE: Wearing red scarves and chanting “yes to democracy, no to revolution,” some 10,000 people marched in Paris on Sunday, to counter the ongoing violence and disruption of the yellow jacket movement. A day earlier, the yellow jackets held their eleventh weekend of nationwide protests.
- SUDAN: Meeting in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused protesters of attempting to destabilize his country and replicate the Arab Spring. Protests began in December over cuts to bread and fuel subsidies, but have since morphed in to opposition to his 30-year rule.
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